Pastoral Resources

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.